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Euro Test 18,19

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

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Class
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1.

Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: In this war poem, what is the viewpoint of Owen ( an officer on the Western Front)?

a)

He is praising the consistent positive attitude of the British volunteer soldier

b)

He is expressing the resentment of Irish soldiers drafted into the British army

c)

The poem contrasts the early optimism about noble war and the later disillusionment of British soldiers facing modern warfare

2.

Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: New chemical weapons appeared in WWI around 1915, and their use:

a)

Illustrates how science was harnessed on total war to more effectively kill

b)

Was not considered barbaric or unusual at the time

c)

Was limited to the Germans, as Allie’s found has warfare uncivilized

3.

Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Which of the following answers BEST explains the context for the secret speech?

a)

Soviet confidence and aggression after succesful creation of nuclear weapons and early Cold War victories in the 1950s

b)

Grassroots opposition to continued political repression by secret police forces

c)

The death of Stalin and removal of the vestiges of Stalinism

4.

Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: The image displays which facet of Stalin’s Soviet Union?

a)

The implementation of the first and second Five Year Plans

b)

Failure of the Five Year Plan to meet all its production goals

c)

The cereation of cult personality

5.

How did hitler ultimately take power in January 1933

a)

He was appointed by President Hindenburg

b)

Hitler staged a violent takeover of power by the SA (Studmabteilung)

c)

Hitler used Article 48 to appoint himself chancellor

6.

The Enabling Act, passed by the German parliament, helped Hitler gain doctoral powers by allowing him to legislate without the consent sent of parliament. Why would parliament vote for a measure that removed their ability to exercise any political power

a)

Because any members of parliament who would have voted against the Enabling Act had been placed under arrest

b)

Members of parliament were bribed to vote for it with large sums of money

c)

The Communists, who at this time were the largest party in Parliament, decided to vote for the measure since it was seen as the only way to solve the economic crisis in Germany

7.

Stallion’s program of forcibly collectivizing Russian agriculture:

a)

Resulted in government-made famine

b)

Was very well received by the Russian peasantry

c)

Encouraged the Russian peasant to greatly increase his productivity in an effort to better serve the state

8.

Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Which of the following developments BEST parallels the relationship between the image and the speech in a previous period of history?

a)

The Cult of Reason during the French Revolution

b)

Baroque art during the Catholic Counter-Reformation

c)

Neo-classic works during the Napoleonic Wars

9.

The Bolsheviks Revolution success was because they promoted:

a)

Victory at any cost

b)

Increased industry

c)

Agrarian reforms

10.

After the Bolsheviks failed to win the majority vote, Lenin ordered the Red Army to disperse the:

a)

Soviet

b)

Duma

c)

Constituent Assembly

11.

Italy agreed to join the Triple Entente because it:

a)

Was promised Austrian Territory

b)

Felt betrayed by Austria-Hungary

c)

Was attacked by Germany to the north

12.

The economist John Maynard Keynes’s criticized of the Paris Peace conference and the Treaty of Versailles Because it:

a)

Created new nation-states

b)

Made no provision for economic restoration of Europe

c)

Included a “war guilt” clause

13.

After the war, the middle eastern territories of the Ottoman Empire were:

a)

Left under Ottoman control

b)

Allowed national self-determination

c)

Made mandates of European powers

14.

The New Economic Policy, or NEP, implemented by Vladimir Lenin 1921 was intended to revive the Soviet economy by:

a)

Continuing the civil war policies of war communism

b)

Nationalizing all industry, large and small

c)

Creating large collective farms.

d)

Providing for a temporary compromise with capitalistic economic policies

15.

Unlike the Congress of Vienna, the Paris Peace Conference following WWI:

a)

Countries who had allied with losing nations were also punished

b)

Territory was not taken from the losing nation

c)

The losing nation was nit allowed to participate in the peace conference

16.

The general von Schlieffen Plan is what led to Germany’s attack on:

a)

France.

b)

Austria.

c)

Russia.

d)

Italy.

17.

Russia lost much territory, people, and resources after Lenin ended the war through:

a)

The treaty of Versailles

b)

The treaty of Brest-Litovsk

c)

His agreement to be returned to Russia in 1917

18.

During World War I, the Great powers needed to create unprecedented amounts of bullets, guns, and machines in order to keep the war effort going. Which of the following was NOT one of the techniques used by European governments to meet wartime economic demands?

a)

They relied on the free market

b)

They increased the employment of women

c)

They developed synthetic substitutes for needed commodities

19.

Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: The tone of the above statement best reflects which of the following developments in Europe between World War One and World War Two?

a)

The promotion of charismatic leaders and the glorification of war

b)

The exploitation of postwar bitterness and economic instability by groups and individuals

c)

Propaganda that rejected democratic institutions to lure the disillusioned

20.

Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Which of the following would best support Mussolini’s assertion above about democracy and Socialism?

a)

Authoritarian rule in Spain from 1936 to the mid 1970s

b)

The British government after the glorious revolution

c)

The United States’ role in Europe during World War Two

21.

Refer to the attached document to answer the following question: Mussolini’s argument in the passage above most clearly supports which of the following idealogies?

a)

Communism

b)

Fascism

c)

Anarchism

d)

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